Worlds Apart
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Erik Jones, director of European and Eurasian studies at Johns Hopkins University on European unity in the Skripal case
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‘We could have a nuclear war by accident’ Professor Gerhard Mangott of the University of Innsbruck analyses Moscow-EU relations
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‘Fidel trusted me’: Jon Alpert, American filmmaker on Cuba documentary he filmed for 45 years
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‘The US is disregarding its allies’ – Jarrett Blanc, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace on US pull-out from Iran deal
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‘The Americans are parents, but we say: We’re off to college’ – The Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs
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‘Who is going to take care of Jerusalem? Us or Hamas?’ An interview with Dore Gold, Israeli diplomat
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‘The US trade policy is a mess’ - Brahma Chellaney from the Center for Policy Research
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‘The US is using racket diplomacy to promote their interests’ – former French foreign trade minister
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‘Italy is a perfect storm for populism in Europe’ - Paolo Magri, director of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies
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‘You need Russia if you want peace in the Middle East’ – ex-Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel
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British media personality Katie Hopkins on Putin, London’s mayor and multiculturalism
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Propaganda exercise or attempt at democracy? – Vyatka State University assistant professor Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s constitution
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‘Iran is the main destabiliser in the region’ – Israel’s ex-Deputy FM Daniel Ayalon
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‘Migration is necessary’ – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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‘Sport is what brings people together’ – Russian hockey legend Viacheslav Fetisov
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Columbia University Professor of Economics Arvind Panagariya on US trade war
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‘Football connects people’ – Legendary Croatian footballer Davor Suker
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‘Views about women’s rights are changing in Afghanistan’ – Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi
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Internet of Things Council founder: Internet of the future, benefits and challenges
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Meir Javedanfar: America abandoning the Iran deal was, ‘a wrong move’
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'The United States is on the declining part of the life cycle curve" – Ichak Adizes, author and management consultant
‘We could have a nuclear war by accident’ Professor Gerhard Mangott of the University of Innsbruck analyses Moscow-EU relations
Is the world teetering on the brink of a significant conflict after the Skripal poisoning case? Host Oksana Boyko discusses the prospects with Gerhard Mangott, a political science professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
“Most certainly we will not have a nuclear war by choice, but we could have one by accident,” Mangott says. But unlike the Cold War, Moscow and the West lack “mutual respect” and “efforts” to reduce the risk of a possible confrontation.
While a host of countries expelled Russian diplomats in response to Kremlin’s alleged role in the Skripal poisoning, Austria decided “not to further aggravate the tension” between Moscow and the EU, Mangott says. “The essential idea behind Austrian behaviour is to say what we don’t have is any institutionalised dialogue between the European institutions and Russia.”
Mangott says eastern Ukraine remains the most pressing issue in Russia-EU relations. “Not so much Crimea, because most Western governments not de-jure, but de-facto accept that Crimea is a part of Russia and will be so for a very long time, if not forever.”
Tune in to see Worlds Apart for more on relations between Russia and the West.